This week, Danny goes back to the 1800s to cover C.L. Blood, a con man who posed as a doctor and claimed that “oxygenized air” (aka nitrous oxide) could cure a wide range of ailments. He dives into Blood’s shady associates, his run-ins with the law, and how it all led to a botched blackmail scheme and a gruesome murder.

RESOURCES:

“A Wily Doctor: The Career of Charles L. Blood, Once of Boston” - The Boston Weekly Guide

“A Man of Ominous Name”: The Inter Ocean

“The Crime of Cain” San Francisco Call

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